There was no mistaking the takeaway yesterday as Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12) held a town hall in Trenton Wednesday, part of a “National Day of Action” on gun violence prevention: This is not a moment. It’s a movement. The…Read more

I’m not sure if New Jersey Rep. Don Payne coined this (although I know he’s said it on several occasions in the past), but his new acronym for the NRA is, as one Twitter user said, the “sickest flame” of…Read more

First, if you have expressed your grief about the shooting in Orlando and about the roughly 27 people shot dead every day of the year, please also post the contact information of your Congressional representative so your social circles can…Read more

“There is no credible evidence to support the contention that taxing inherited wealth drives hordes of wealthy families to leave New Jersey before dying. While plenty of older people leave New Jersey every year, few are fleeing the estate tax….Read more

Back in April, the Star-Ledger encouraged Democratic primary voters to switch party affiliation so we could vote for Kasich and thus, stop Trump from securing the nomination. With the state’s primary less than a month away and with Trump now…Read more

Cruz is out, Kasich is out, so let’s go way back – three weeks to be precise – to that time when the Ledger told us Democrats to switch parties to vote against Trump. Blue Jersey had some fun with that, and…Read more

As you know, tomorrow, April 13, is the last day you can declare party affiliation in advance of New Jersey’s June 7 primary election. For Blue Jersey readers, that means it’s time for the Democratic Party to fatten up its voter…Read more

First things first. the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University will still be named after the 28th president of the United States. In an era of #BlackLivesMatter, in an age of protest where social, environmental and…Read more

The late Justice Antonin Scalia has the potential to bring us some interesting posthumous material, even if it was never intended for release by the jurist. In Scalia’s absence, public sector unions scored a big victory Tuesday when the court deadlocked 4-4 along familiar…Read more